5
Winner Hood HOOD 5-6
3
St. Scholastica ST. SCHO 4-5
Winner
Hood HOOD
5-6
5
Final
3
St. Scholastica ST. SCHO
4-5
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Hood HOOD 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 8 2
St. Scholastica ST. SCHO 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 5 1

W: Gottleib, Rebecca (3-3) L: A. Shogren (1-3)

12
Beloit BELOIT 0-8
13
Winner Hood HOOD 6-6
Beloit BELOIT
0-8
12
Final
13
Hood HOOD
6-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Beloit BELOIT 4 0 0 0 6 2 0 12 12 2
Hood HOOD 2 0 6 0 2 3 X 13 12 3

W: Nagy, Hannah (1-0) S: Gottleib, Rebecca (1)

Team Celebration
MacKenzie Oberholzer, Thomas College Athletics
Sam Larkin, Sara Munson, Jocelyn Pfleiger, Sydney Weaver

Game Recap: Softball | | Joel White, Graduate Assistant

Softball sends Saints and Buccaneers overboard

WINTER HAVEN, Fl. - The Hood College softball team completed another sweep during its Florida trip, coming back to defeat The College of St. Scholastica 5-3 and outdueling Beloit College 13-12 in THE Spring Games.

At the Plate
Jocelyn Pfleiger (Quakertown, Pa./Dock Mennonite Academy) hit 5-7 with two walks, hitting a home run in game one against St. Scholastica.

Rebecca Gottleib (Linthicum, Md./North County) went 2-3 against Beloit, walking twice and smacking a double and a triple.

Bailey Pysher (Pottstown, Pa/Pottsgrove) batted 2-3 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch, driving in two runs while scoring twice herself.

Lizzie McConnell (Stevensville, Md./Kent Island) went 2-4 with a double, two RBIs, and two runs.

In the Circle
Gottleib struck out five batters and allowed just five hits in the game one win against St. Scholastica.

Hannah Nagy (Mercersberg, Pa./James Buchannon) earned her first collegiate win against Beloit, pitching 1.2 innings, with Gottleib picking up her first career save in a rare relief outing in the seventh.

Hood 5, St. Scholastica 3
The Blazers started on the back foot almost immediately, with the Saints scoring in the bottom of the first inning, but Hood got out of the potential jam otherwise unscathed.

Although the Blazers could not find an offensive groove for the next few innings, St. Scholastica could not either, but that changed in the bottom of the fifth inning when the Saints plated two more runs to put Hood in a 3-0 hole with just two innings remaining.

Needing a spark, Pfleiger led off in the top of the sixth and decided to start a wildfire with a towering home run almost dead center to get the Blazers on the board. From there it was all Hood, as the bases were loaded just a few batters later and began being cleared from there, with a deep Lillian Larsen (Arbutus, Md./Western Tech) single down the left field line giving the Blazers the lead. Kaelyn Blocher (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) hit a sacrifice fly to round out the scoring for Hood, and Gottleib would not allow another hit to complete the comeback and take a 5-3 win.

Hood 13, Beloit 12
Despite falling behind in the first inning for the second time that day, the Blazers would not wait so long to answer, cutting their 4-0 deficit in half their first time at the plate.

Neither team added to their total in the second, but Hood came up big in the bottom of the third after the first two batters got on base. Both were sent around the diamond to tie the game 4-4, but the Blazers were not done yet, as McConnell and Blocher hit back-to-back doubles to score three more runs and give Hood its first lead of the game along with forcing a pitching change from the Buccaneers. Gottleib would hit her first extra-base hit of the game to score one more run before Beloit ended the inning.

Both squads put the pedal to the metal after nothing in the fourth inning, with the Buccaneers exploding for six runs in the fifth to momentarily snatch the lead before the Blazers tied things up at 10 thanks in part to a Gottleib triple.

A leadoff triple by Beloit started another small rally that saw it put Hood back in a two-run deficit, but the Blazers one-upped the Buccaneers by scoring three times to jump ahead by a sliver, unable to send two of the remaining baserunners home to add to the lead.

With just three outs needed to hang on for the win, movement in the dugout created shock among the traveling Hood fans when Gottleib trotted out to take the circle after pitching the entire previous game. She picked up right where she left off though, striking out the leadoff batter without throwing any pitch for a ball. A hard-hit ground ball to short put the next batter on base, but a laser of a throw from Hailey Shaffer (Eldersburg, Md./Liberty) behind the plate caught her out by a mile, effectively killing any momentum the Buccaneers had. Gottleib finished things off herself two batters later to give Hood a rollercoaster 13-12 win.
 
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